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ERIC Number: EJ600279
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
Chicago's Black Metropolis: Understanding History through a Historic Place.
Danzer, Gerald A.
Social Education, v62 n3 pps1-16 Mar 1998
Presents a lesson that focuses on specific places in Chicago's Black Metropolis and examines the process by which buildings become historic structures. Explains that the lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, "Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination," and could be used in a unit on 20th-century urban history. (CMK)
Descriptors: Black History, Buildings, Community Influence, Community Problems, Cultural Awareness, Historic Sites, Local History, Migration, Primary Sources, Secondary Education, Social History, Social Studies, Student Attitudes, Urban Studies
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Illinois (Chicago); National Register of Historic Places